Bryan Cranston
American actor (born 1956) · United States · Actors
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He went from sitcom dad to meth-cooking antihero and won four Emmys doing it. Walter White made Bryan Cranston a name people remember when they talk about the best thing they ever saw on television.
A life in dates
The Sheep DetectivesFilm, Sebastian (voice)2025
The Phoenician SchemeFilm, Reagan2023
Asteroid CityFilm, The Host2022
Jerry & Marge Go LargeFilm, Jerry Selbee2019
The Kelly Clarkson ShowSeries
El Camino: A Breaking Bad MovieFilm, 2019Walt2018
Isle of DogsFilm, Chief (voice)2017
Last Flag FlyingFilm, Sal Nealon2015
TrumboFilm, Dalton Trumbo2014Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama SeriesAwardTheatre World AwardAwardTony Award for Best Actor in a PlayAward
Late Night with Seth MeyersSeries, 2014
GodzillaFilm, 2014Joe Brody2013Star on Hollywood Walk of FameAward
Cold Comes the NightFilm, 2013Topo2011
Batman: Year OneFilm, Jim Gordon (voice)2010Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama SeriesAward
ConanSeries, 20102009Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama SeriesAward2008Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama SeriesAward
Breaking BadSeries, 2008Director, Producer2006
Little Miss SunshineFilm, Stan Grossman2005
American Dad!Series, Bill Publisherman (voice)2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!Series1998
Hollywood SquaresSeries1996
The Daily ShowSeries
That Thing You Do!Film, 1996Virgil "Gus" Grissom1993
The X-FilesSeries, Patrick Crump1987
Amazon Women on the MoonFilm, Paramedic #1 (segment "Roast Your Loved One") (uncredited)1975
Saturday Night LiveSeries1956Born7 March 1956Also in Deutsch
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Cranston as Doug Donovan in Loving, 1983
Cranston at the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con
Cranston (right) with Aaron Paul and Vince Gilligan in 2010
Cranston at the All the Way premiere at the LBJ Library, Austin in 2016
Roman Coppola, Bob Balaban, Bill Murray, Greta Gerwig, and Cranston at the Isle of Dogs press conference at Berlinale 2018
Cranston and wife Robin Dearden in September 2008Filmography 40
TDThe Sheep DetectivesTSThe Phoenician Scheme
KPKung Fu Panda 4
ARArgylleACAsteroid CityJLJerry & Marge Go Large
TIThe One and Only Ivan
TUThe UpsideEMEl Camino: A Breaking Bad MovieIDIsle of Dogs
PRPower Rangers
TAThe Disaster ArtistLFLast Flag Flying
WAWakefield
KPKung Fu Panda 3
WHWhy Him?
TIThe Infiltrator
IBIn Dubious Battle
AWAll the Way
GJGet a JobTRTrumboGOGodzillaCNCold Comes the Night
NBNo Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad
MWMadagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
TRTotal Recall
ARArgo
JCJohn Carter
RARock of Ages
RTRed Tails
DRDrive
TLThe Lincoln Lawyer
COContagion
LCLarry Crowne
DEDetachmentBOBatman: Year OneLSLittle Miss Sunshine
SRSaving Private RyanTDThat Thing You Do!AMAmazon Women on the Moon262 credits on file
Television 24
TSThe Kelly Clarkson Show
TCThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TCThe Late Late Show with James Corden
BSBetter Call Saul
TFThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonLMLate Night with Seth MeyersCOConan
WCWatch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
MFModern FamilyBBBreaking Bad
TSThe Graham Norton Show
TOThe OfficeADAmerican Dad!
TRThe Colbert ReportJLJimmy Kimmel Live!
RMReal Time with Bill Maher
FGFamily GuyHSHollywood Squares
TVThe ViewTSThe Daily ShowTFThe X-Files
TSThe Simpsons
SESeinfeldSLSaturday Night LiveAwards
Family
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Bryan Lee Cranston was born March 7, 1956, and spent years working steadily before Fox cast him as Hal, the goofy father in Malcolm in the Middle, a role that earned him Emmy nominations from 2000 to 2006. Then AMC took a chance on him as Walter White in Breaking Bad, and the part rewired his career - he won Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series four times between 2008 and 2014. He brought that intensity to Broadway, winning a Tony for playing Lyndon Johnson in All the Way in 2014, then a second Tony and a Laurence Olivier Award for Howard Beale in Network. His turn as blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo in 2015 landed him Oscar and BAFTA nominations, and he's kept working across film, voice roles, and series like Your Honor. The range stuck.
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